Around the World in Eighty Days

Phileas Fogg, a man of famously rigid habits, wagers half his fortune at his gentlemen's club that he can travel around the world in eighty days — an outrageous claim in 1872, when trains, steamships, and telegraphs had only just begun stitching the planet together. With his new valet Passepartout in tow, and a detective secretly convinced Fogg is actually a bank robber on the run, the race becomes a nonstop scramble across deserts, oceans, and blizzards where every missed connection could cost him everything.Verne's most purely fun adventure — less about the science-fiction speculation he's famous for, more about pure momentum, the thrill of the itinerary, and one man's refusal to be late.